SAPNA – South Asian Political Network Alliance, along with the South Asian Bar Association (SABA-LV), invites you to its luncheon meeting with guest speaker Las Vegas City Councilwoman Victoria Seaman on Saturday, August 3rd at 11:30 am at Mint Indian Bistro, 4246 S. Durango Drive, Las Vegas [SE Corner of Durango and Flamingo]. The cost per person is $25, which includes a specially prepared Indian lunch buffet with a wide variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian delights. A quick Q&A session will follow after a short presentation by our guest speaker, Councilwoman Seaman. SAPNA luncheons provideRead More

Las Vegas based Muslim Caucus invites the community to celebrate Muslim American Heritage Month on Saturday, July 27th, 2024 at the Amirana Community Center. Recently the Clark County Commission declared July as the Muslim Heritage Month and recognized exceptional muslims from the local community. Celebrations are open to all without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and/or national origin.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who read the invocation (opening-prayer) in the United States (US) Senate in Washington DC on July 12, 2007; has been scheduled to deliver the opening-prayer again after 17 years in the Senate on July 30th, 2024. Besides US Senate and US House of Representatives; Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, has read Hindu opening-prayers in 310 other legislative bodies in 44 US states and Canada; including state senates, state houses-of-representatives/assemblies, county commissions, city/town councils; which is an record in itself. Most ofRead More

During the first quarter of the 2024 election year, five South Asian candidates raised a dismal amount totaling just over $59,000. With primaries over, only two Democratic candidates have moved on to November’s general election, while incumbent Assemblyman Ruben D’Silva (D) is running unopposed and is moving on to represent the community as a second-term Nevada State Assemblyman.  Surprisingly, in this crucial election year, no Republican member of the growing, highly educated, and financially prosperous community filed for an elected office. Indian-American incumbent Assemblyman from District 28, Reuben D’Silva, raised over $41,700Read More

At a recently held Clark County Commission meeting, Chairman Tick Segerblom proclaimed July a Muslim American Heritage Month in Clark County. The Commission honored Farrah Acheson as an exceptional Muslim American citizen to celebrate the same.  “We demonstrate our deep appreciation of the Muslim community and stand in solidarity against prejudice and discrimination,” said Segerblom during the proclamation announcement. In recognizing Farrah, Commissioner Segerblom introduced Farrah as a native of India and a Chair of the Muslim Caucus, where she is the voice of the Muslim community in the politicalRead More

Paresh Joshi, a 22-year resident of Las Vegas, applied for a volunteer position as a Board Member of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. After reviewing Joshi’s background, the County Commissioners selected Claytee White, Director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV, who better matches the community values and has an extensive volunteering background. In his application, Joshi highlighted his 20 years of professional and volunteer experience as a President (Hindu Temple), Chair, Tech Lead, Analyst, and Supervisor. Since 2002, Joshi has been an employee of Southwest Gas Corporation, where heRead More

University of Nevada, Reno, Chemical & Materials Engineering Professor Dev Chidambaram is collaborating with Idaho National Laboratory and Pennsylvania State University to make materials to be used in a specific part of a process that would remove the uranium from our existing stockpile of used fuel from nuclear power plants and make them usable for next-generation nuclear reactors. The United States currently has a stockpile of 90,000 metric tons of used fuel and generates about 2,000 additional metric tons per year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). TheRead More

Diva Saxena, a graduate of Ed. W. Clark High School is named the university-sponsored National Merit Scholarship winner.  Diva joined the elite group of four Indian-American students who were earlier named college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship winners.  Beginning this fall, Saxena plans to pursue an Economics and Human & Organizational Development degree at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.  At Clark, Saxena was the co-president of DECA, formerly Distributive Education Clubs of America, captain of the Clark’s Speech and Debate team, national merit finalist, and international DECA Champion.  Additionally, in May 2024, the Las Vegas Asian ChamberRead More

We have all seen what happens as people get older. We have seen it in our parents and Grand Parents. Their minds and bodies become slower. They become less energetic. Memories begin to falter. Responses become weak. That’s what we saw in President Biden in the debate with the former President Trump. His performance made people’s fear even stronger that he is not fit to be the President for another four years. He appeared substantially weaker than 2020 when he won the Presidency. There have been reports that his conditionRead More